Kelly Gray

Kelly Gray is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Our Sodden Bond (MAYDAY, 2025) and Dilapitatia (Moon Tide Press, 2025). Her honors include a gold medal in the IPPY Awards and the Tusculum Review Chapbook Prize. In 2004 she founded Books & Barns, a reading series that takes place in busted-up barns along the edges of estuaries in Northern California. Gray lives with her family in a cabin in the woods and, alongside her four other jobs, teaches poetry in rural public schools. More at writekgray.com. (updated 10/2026)